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Revision as of 00:51, 16 February 2014
The Scorchies was the sixty-fifth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the ninth story of season 7. It was written by James Goss and featured Jo Grant.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor, his companion Jo Grant and the Brigadier face their strangest case yet — a Saturday night TV show that has been invaded by aliens that look like puppets!
The Scorchies want to take over the world. They want to kill the Doctor. And they want to perform some outstanding showtunes. Though not necessarily in that order…
With Jo caught inside The Scorchies Show, can she save the day before the planet Earth falls victim to the dark side of light entertainment?
Plot
Part One
Jo is within the Scorchies show, and she is told she needs to complete three tasks on the show, tell a story, make a thing, and sing a song. She begins by telling the story of how she came to be on the show. One day the Doctor was working on his TARDIS, when the Scorchies show caught his eye. He tells Jo how he has seen the show before, and how it takes over the entire adult population of a planet, before burning it, the Scorchies then say how this is how they earned their name. The Scorchies then take a break from the story to make Jo begin the second task, to make a thing, with help from Amble the Ugly Doll, they begin to make an anti-Scorchie gun, but Mr Grizzfizzle sees through this and kills Amble. Jo then wants to know what they have done with the Doctor, as he came to investigate but never returned, Mr Grizzfizzle then claims to have killed him.
Part Two
Proffessor Baffle then tells the story of how the Scorchies came into existance, about how their world was burned by an invader through television, and the inventor of television found a way to transmit the population as an disembodied intelligence to other worlds. The Scorchies then decided to take revenge on the universe until either it was sorry, or everyone was dead. Professor Baffle then goes on to reveal how he did not actually kill the Doctor, and how he only damaged Bessie. The Brigadier then begins an attack on the studios, and Mr Grizzfizzle sends the Magic Mice to deal with the attack. In the meantime, the Scorchies believe that the Doctor has reversed their signal, and force Jo and Professor Baffle to make a device to reverse the polarity back again. Professor Baffle then reveals that he was in fact the inventor of the television back on their home world, and the Scorchies were punishing him by making him watch the terrible things that they were doing. Professor Baffle then activates the device, and the Scorchies begin to disintegrate, Baffle then reveals that the polarity was never reversed in the first place, and that he allowed the Doctor to infiltrate his personality long ago. The reversed signal then kills the Scorchies, the Doctor says that their bodies may be destroyed, but they continue to exist as an intelligence floating around in space.
Cast
References
- The Scorchies include Mr Grizzfizzle, Professor Baffle, Cool Cat, the Magic Mice and Amble the Ugly Dolly.
- The Doctor and Jo were watching The Scorchies Show on the BBC on the previous Saturday before going ballroom dancing with Sgt. John Benton.
- Jo refers to Pebble Mill at One and Space: 1999. She did not have a high opinion of the latter series.
- Delia Smith appeared in an episode of The Scorchies Show and baked a soufflé. Jo particularly enjoyed that episode.
- The Scorchies refer in their songs to many of the Third Doctor's enemies who failed to kill him, including Ogrons, Azal, An Ice Lord, Daleks, Axons, Autons and the Master; they also refer to the planets Solos and Metebelis III in their songs.
- Angela Rippon once tried to teach Cool Cat the foxtrot.
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 19 October 2012.
Continuity
- The Doctor and Jo build a reverse polarity polarity reverser using a wine bottle and several corks. (TV: The Time Monster)
External links
- Official The Scorchies page at bigfinish.com
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